Nachumi examines the impact of the 18th century theater on the ways British women novelists represented female subjectivity. She argues that theater offered women alternatives to contemporary models of feminine nature, and helped women writers express women's experiences. Focusing mainly on Burney, Inchbald, and Austen in depth, she shows how they relate to each other and to other novelists, performers, and playwrights. These authors used theatrical images and practices. Steeped in the 18th century stage as well as these authors' lives, Nachumi is able to show how each author applied her own experience of the theater to her writing. There is also an appendix that is a table showing that 1/3 of female authors writing between 1600 and 1818 were actresses, playwrights, or otherwise involved in the theater. This copy is almost like new. Scarce book. AMS Press, Inc. 2008. Hb, Dj. USED. $125.00
